Elastic Beanstalk is a great solution when the cloud adoption driver is the reduction of management overhead. It's also very useful when a small development team needs to focus 100% on the code and not worry about managing the infrastructure. In this chapter, have taken a look at how to create and manage Elastic Beanstalk applications and environments and the different strategies that exist for updating. In the next chapter, we will be studying automation with the CloudFormation Service.